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Just pulling some history to day after reading 🔗 Room temperature from Seth.

Stable systems regress to the mean. Things level out on their way to average, which maintains the stability of the system. The same pressures are put on any individual in our culture. Sooner or later, unless you push back, you’ll end up at room temperature.

🖇️ Me - July 2024 - We Are Being Forced To Conform

[🖇️ Me - March 2025 - A post responding to @manton / @devilgate](https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/05/the-butterfly-effect-is-real.html)

🖇️ Manton’s Original Post

🔗 My morning’s peruse of my RSS feeds was ‘chokka’ with great gruber words … and then ‘other people’ writing about ‘great @gruber’

This is the latter from 🔗 Anil Dash

Not about Gruber per se - all about Markdown - but in so many ways written as a dedication to JG and a really great primer/history on it. Well worth a read.

Final paragraph

The trillion-dollar AI industry’s system for controlling their most advanced platforms is a plain text format one guy made up for his blog and then bounced off of a 17-year-old kid before sharing it with the world for free.

🔗 The Genius Whose Simple Invention Saved Us From Shame at the Gas Station - WSJ Paywall … but am sure it is on Apple News … if you have that access.

Sharing because I was driving with my friend Cliff a few months ago - stopping for gas - and couldn’t recall what side my filler cap was.

What does the arrow say

.. asked Cliff … 🤯

In all my years of driving I had never known this.

John @gruber (at Daring Fireball) seems to have taken over my RSS this morning ….

🔗 How to Temporarily Disable Face ID or Touch (another increasingly important PSA)

🔗 The New York Times Profiles John Ternus

🔗 Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?

🔗 Let’s Call a Murder a Murder

🔗📼 365 Daily Words

Via 🔗 Flowing Data

Not yet decided if this is meaningful or just ‘lightly meta’.

Claude

The good: 🔗 The project that turned me into a Claude Code believer

… and the bad: 🔗 Claude Code and What Comes Next

He acted according to his training," Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, told the Minnesota Star Tribune in an email, noting that this specific agent was selected for ICE’s Special Response Team, is an expert marksman.

He acted according to his training … is an expert marksman.

[🔗 The Star Tribune)(https://www.startribune.com/ice-agent-who-fatally-shot-woman-in-minneapolis-is-identified/601560214)

Cynthia Knight composed this in 1983 - a poem typed entirely on the upper row of a typewriter.

That second part bears repeating …. a poem typed entirely on the upper row of a typewriter.

Now click through and read it. Marvellous stuff.

🔗 WIPEOUT

Very clever - IMHO

🔗 Blenheim Palace Launches New Tour Exploring Servant Scandals, Secrets, and Supernatural Tales

If you’ve ever wandered through a grand British stately home and wondered about the lives of those who actually kept the place running, Blenheim Palace has a new tour designed specifically for you

🔗😂 xkcd: Superstition - so good.